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Wrestling dropped from 2020 Olympics

The IOC board acted after reviewing the 26 sports on the current Olympic program. Eliminating one sport allows the International Olympic Committee to add a new sport to the program later this year.

Wrestling, which combines freestyle and Greco-Roman events, goes back to the inaugural modern Olympics in Athens in 1896…

Wrestling will now join seven other sports in applying for inclusion in 2020. The others are a combined bid from baseball and softball, karate, squash, roller sports, sport climbing, wakeboarding and wushu. They will be vying for a single opening in 2020.

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Morons are in charge. Get rid of that stupid rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming is right. Golf as an Olympic sport? Please…and tennis doesn’t need to be there either, we see the same tennis players damn near every week it seems. What is wushu anyway?

Sometimes they’re good (like Canada’s) – and sometimes I feel embarrassed for the country putting them on, even if they don’t have the good sense to be embarrassed themselves (the UK, which has become so pathetic as to believe the sum total of what they have to be proud of is a clusterfark socialized health care system and 40 year-old pop music).

This truly is ludicrous. Wrestling is one of the original Olympic sports. If the Marathon starts to get poor ratings, will they get rid of it too. Our elite college wrestlers now have no higher level to compete at.

Thank God. It would be an international crisis to lose such respected, traditional sports as Trampoline, BMX Cycling or Table Tennis. Much better to lose a sport that was not only extant during the inaugural 1896 Modern Olympics, but was also a centerpiece of the Ancient Olympics.

I think they should drop all sports, as defined by anything decided by a score or a time. Anything that gets “judged”, no matter how technically or physically demanding, is not a sport. It can stay. And we can start a new competition, involving actual sport; the broadcast rights will be sold upon the condition that no personal vignettes be broadcast, ever, that the events be shown in their entirety, and that the winning broadcaster will be required to sign their contract in Bob Costas’ blood. All of it.

I’ve been saying what a total joke the Olympics have become. They are pretty worthless, these days. They bring in sports that have the best already playing world championships in professional leagues (mostly team sports for which the pro leagues put all of the Olympic teams to shame) and they have brought in idiotic half-sports. Heck, even normal gymnastics is now called “Artistic gymnastics” … can you believe that sh!t? The Olympics used to be, essentially, for the individual sports that didn’t have any professional leagues and truly did represent about the best in the world in the competitions. No longer.

The Olympics are now full-on Eurotrash pseudo-competitions that aren’t worth watching anymore. If they can get rid of wrestling – an ORIGINAL Olympic sport – then they are just fake wannabe X-games, and I’ve pretty much had enough of the actual X-games.

Wrestling will now join seven other sports in applying for inclusion in 2020. The others are a combined bid from baseball and softball, karate, squash, roller sports, sport climbing, wakeboarding and wushu. They will be vying for a single opening in 2020.